Four Kings - George Kimball

Well, it's as bias as an sportswriter would be.
Out of those four, you are at least going to love one and hate one, so it's gonna have to be bias to a certain degree.

 

George Kimball's a terrific writer, who happens to write about boxing.

 

What's the book biased about?

 

I've read it twice and cannot recall any serious bias. I thought it was excellent and could not put it down! Covered teh careers of all 4 guys in impressive detail! Your girl is a keeper!

 

I think it can be downloaded for free if you know where to look for it.

 

Yeah that's what I was asking about, I read the book and couldn't find anything out of sorts. Maybe this poster will come around with something to say.

 

I don't think it's biased at all actually. One of my first boxing books and one of my favorites still.

 

it worries me that the thing i remember most of about it was it saying McCallum beat kalambay to win the world middleweight title in 88.

Think that was this one anyway, a lot of fab four stuff just blends into one for me.

 

Good book -one of the better ones on boxing. My only qualm with it is that he approaches the subject of Roberto Duran as if he was born a welterweight and was as much in his prime as the others. He doesn't appreciate the historical gravity of Duran's accomplishments in the 80s -which, when measured up with history, are shocking.

 

Yes, very good book. Haven't read it in a while, but he does write about the near signing of Leonard-Hearns years before their initial scrap.

 

:love Way back in the days befor PCs and DVDs my girl suprised me with a battered old VHS tape with over 20 Thomas Hearns fights on it. God only knows where she got it from.

Can't believe I ever let her get away from me. Where did it all go wrong? :sad2

 

2 things, my friend:

(1) You need to hook up with that girl again; and
(2) if one of those 20 fights was Hearns v Ken Atkins from 1991 then I'd give anything for you to send it my way. I've been trying to score that fight for years.

 

(1) Well she is on my mind a lot lately. Had a Christmas card and I know that she's single...
(2) Sorry, bud. The tape only went as far as Olajide. Its long gone in anycase, it got lost somehow during a house move about six years ago. Many of the fights aren't on You Tube etc and I'm still really gutted about it.

If I ever get back with Jo again, perhaps she can get another copy!